Protective cuff



Aug. 12, 1947. H. H. McCARL PROTECTIVE CUFF Filed Oct. 3, 1945 3,! I INVENTOR. HowardH V Patented Aug. 12, 1947 UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE PROTECTIVE CUFF Howard H. McCarl, Eghefijeld, Ala. Application October 3, 1945,, Sea; No. 6,2 0,920

4 Claims. (o1. ages) I (Granted under the act of; March 3, 1883, as amended April 30, 1928-; 370 0. G. 757) Theinvention described herein, if patented,

may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes, without the payment to me of any royalty thereon.

This invention relates to a protective cuff of the type worn by butchers, file clerks and other persons who must work in more or less public places with moist or dusty materials to protect their sleeves from being soiled by the materials handled in the course of their work.

It is an object of the invention to provide a cufi made preferably of plastic sheet material having a simple design, an effective adjustable closure and a comfortable finish at the wrist side of the cuff.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a waterproof cuif which fits comfortably around the wrist and which will protect the sleeves of the wearer from dust and stains which might be received from material handled by the wearer.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a hollow sealed bead as a protective finish for articles of wearing apparel at points where the edges of the articles come into contact with the skin of the wearer.

Further objects of the invention will be apparent from a consideration of the ensuing specification taken in connection with accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of the cuffs as worn,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the cuff,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the cuff as worn, and

Figure 4 is an inverted sectional view perpendicular to line 4-4 of Figure 3.

In the drawing, I represents a cuff formed of a single sheet of water-proof material, preferably a plastic such as vinylite. The cufi? I0 is cut with curving wrist and top edges II and I2 and flaring sides I3 so that it fits more or less closely around the wrist of the wearer but is sufficiently large at the top to accommodate the sleeves of a shirt or coat. Reinforcing patches III are provided along the edges I3 and strengthen the sheet to receive a pair of fastener elements I5 and I6 on one side and two pairs of snap fastener elements I! and I8 on the other. The snap fastener elements I8 at the elbow side of the cuff I 0 are located the same distance from the outer element I! at the wrist edge II of the cuff so that either of the elbow elements I8 may be engaged with the fastener I6 when the outer element I1 is secured to the corresponding element I5. The four snap fastener elements I1, I8, are arranged so as to define the four corners of an oblique parallelogram, two sides of which have a length equal to the distance between spaced snap fastener elements I5 and I6; the length of the diagonal line between outer snap fastener element I1 and inner snap fastener element I8 also is equal to the distance between snap fastener elements I5 and I6 and thus equal to the length of the just-mentioned two sides of the parallelogram. This permits the side edges of the cuff to be assembled in flatly overlying relationship and the top of the cuff to be adjusted independently of the lower larger adjustment, that is, when the right-hand element II, as seen in Figure 2, is connected to the element I5, as in Figure 3.

The material of the cuff is heavy enough ordinarily so that no special finish of the side edges: I3 and top edge I2 is required. It is desirable to provide a bead I9 at the wrist edge II of the: cuff both to insure a closer fit and to protect the wrist from chafing. In the preferred embodi-- ment of my invention, the bead I9 is formed by turning back the wrist edge of the sheet of material forming the cuff Ill and heat-sealing the hem so formed along a line spaced from the fold. The ends 20 of the hem so formed are also closed preferably by heat-sealing, leaving a substantially rounded bead forming a sealed air pocket inside the hem. The bead I9 provides a very satisfactory finish for the wrist edge of the cuff because of its yielding quality and light weight.

A bead of this type may form a desirable finish for other articles of wearing apparel and personal use, where an edge or fold comes into rubbing contact with or bears directly on the skin of the user.

The reinforcing patches I4 may also be secured to the body of the cuff by the application of heat and pressure when a thermoplastic material is used for the cuff I0. However, it should be understood that adhesives or other means forming a tight seal may be employed with other materials as desired.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A protective cuif comprising a fiat sheet of fluid-impermeable flexible material having a flexible limb-encircling edge, said cuff being flat in plan and closable around a portion of the body of the wearer, and said edge being finished with a hem forming a hollow flexible air-filled limbencircling bead, said head having its ends closed.

2. A cuff comprising a fiat flexible fluid-im- 3 permeable sheet of material having its wrist edge folded back to form a hollow flexible limb-encircling bead, said bead having its ends sealed to form an air pocket within the bead.

3. A closable protecting cuff comprising a flat sheet of flexible, fluid-impermeable material folded back to form a hollow flexible air-filled head, said bead having its edges sealed to the body of the cuff along three margins, and means for adjustably closing said cuff around the wrist of -.the wearer.

4. A closable protective cuff comprising a sheet of flexible fluid-impermeable material having tapering substantially straight side edges and adcomprising a pair of spaced fastener elements .justable closing means thereon, said closing means 15 :adjacent one side edge of said cufi, and. four :spaced fastener elements adjacent the other side edge of said cuff, said four fastener elements being arranged so as to define the four corners of an oblique parallelogram having two sides and one diagonal of equal length corresponding to the distance between said first-named spaced fastener elements, said first-named fastener elements being engageable with said second-named fastener elements in a plurality of positions including a diagonal position, so as to assemble said side edges of said cuff to the body of said cuff in flatly overlying relationship.

HOWARD H. McCARL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 946,541 Fletcher Jan. 18, 1910 1,378,081 Yaeger May 17, 1921 2,282,220 Gage May 5, 1942 856,282 Moss June 11, 1907 20 2,048,343 Liebowitz July 21, 1936 1,762,549 Fisher June 10, 1930 719,344 Leathers Jan. 27, 1903 

